VA - 100 Best Of Blue Note [2011] (10 x CD's)

 

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VA - 100 Best Of Blue Note [2011] (10 x CD's)

This box set consists of 100 tracks from the Blue Note collection of recordings, which theoretically spans from 1939 to the present, but much of which is focused from 1952 – 1972, with renewed energy starting in 1985 and quickly tailing of before again surging in the last decade. As expected, there is a smattering of just about everyone and everything here, with a clear focus on the ‘Blue Note Sound’.  There is an amazing sampling of music from the so-called ‘Blue Note era’ – which is basically ‘Hard Bop’, but that form was dominated by Blue Note records for so long that it took on a new identity. Pretty much every disk (except for the last two) contains at least half of the songs from the artists associated with that sound – and it is space well spent! It separates this from just sounding like a random collection of music.  It is an excellent presentation of the core styles of modern jazz along with a preponderance of the great artists who played those styles. It isn’t comprehensive, but that isn’t the intent. It is also extremely accessible while still being deep ... (geardiary.com)

A great field of marvelous music to explore, a wonderful introduction if you don't have anything from Blue Note but also a compact means of containing a wide range of artists and tracks. Terrific!

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Track lists

CD01

01 Django Reinhardt & Coleman Hawkins Out of Nowhere 3:22

02 Charlie Parker Ornithology 4:27

03 Ike Quebec Topsy 3:04

04 Bud Powell Bouncin' With Bud 3:05

05 Paul Chambers With John Coltrane Trane's Blues 6:59

06 Miles Davis Jeru 3:15

07 Gerry Mulligan I'll Remember April 4:19

08 James Moody Moody's All Frantie 2:36

09 Count Basie Sleepwalker's Serenade 3:39

10 Billie Holiday Detour Ahead 3:02

CD02

01 Louis Armstrong and the Duke Ellington Orchestra Azalea 5:03

02 Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie Man From Monterey 3:58

03 Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan You Go to My Head 4:51

04 Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron Lady Bird 2:52

05 Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims Violets for Your Furs 6:09

06 Serge Chaloff All the Things You Are 5:26

07 Hank Mobley Remember 5:40

08 Stan Getz Lullaby of Birdland 2:26

09 Chet Baker My Funny Valentine (Vocal) 2:19

10 Thelonious Monk Ruby My Dear 3:08

CD03

01 Herbie Hancock Lady Sings the Blues 4:23

02 Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong Solitude 4:53

03 Lou Donaldson Carvin' the Rock 3:57

04 Thad Jones April in Paris 6:39

05 Duke Ellington African Flower 3:33

06 Sonny Clark Dial S for Sonny 7:25

07 Charles Mingus Summertime 4:38

08 John Coltrane One and Four 7:36

09 Freddie Hubbard A Night in Tunisia 10:26

10 Wayne Shorter Footprints 7:27

CD04

01 Johnny Griffin Mil Dew 3:55

02 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Look at the Birdie 6:44

03 Lee Morgan The Sixth Sense 6:43

04 Joe Henderson Mode for Joe 7:59

05 Donald Byrd Three Wishes 5:12

06 McCoy Tyner Contemplation 9:10

07 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage 7:54

08 Holly Cole Javon Jackson - Hum Drum Blues 5:35

09 Joe Lovano I'm All for You 7:48

10 Stanley Jordan Freddie Freeloader 5:51

CD05

01 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else 8:14

02 Michael Petrucciani Limbo 8:07

03 Horace Silver Que Pasa 5:39

04 Walter Davis Jr. Rhumba Nhumba 6:59

05 Herbie Hancock Oliloqui Valley 8:29

06 Kenny Cox Diahnn 8:38

07 Dexter Gordon Love for Sale 7:37

08 Blue Mitchall Fungii Mama 7:50

09 Donald Byrd Shangri-La 6:38

10 Sonny Rollins Misterioso 9:21

CD06

01 Kenny Dorham Una Mas 15:16

02 Miles Davis Weirdo 4:43

03 Pete La Roca Lazy Afternoon 5:32

04 Tina Brooks Miner Move 6:38

05 Baby Face Willette Quartet Somethin' Strange 6:42

06 Milt Jackson Bags Groove 3:05

07 Bobby Hutcherson West 22nd Street Theme 4:41

08 Stanley Turrentine River's Invitation 6:15

09 Kenny Burrell Chitlins Con Carne 5:26

10 Big John Patton Soul Woman 7:41

CD07

01 Jimmy Smith See See Rider 6:36

02 Grant Green The Final Comedown 3:27

03 Lonnie Smith Turning Point 8:23

04 Art Ensemble of Chicago Theme De Yoyo 9:03

05 Don Ellis Orchestra Passacaglia and Fugue 6:33

06 Clifford Brown Easy Living 3:45

07 Wayne Shorter House of Jade 6:53

08 Gil Evans Straight No Chaser 6:52

09 Kenny Drew Undercurrent 7:20

10 Jackie McLean Frankenstein 7:28

CD08

01 Eric Dolphy Something Sweet, Something Tender 6:04

02 Tony Williams Tomorrow Afternoon 5:32

03 Ornette Coleman Trio Dee Dee 10:29

04 Andrew Hill Siete Ocho 9:01

05 Chick Corea Song of the Wind 6:48

06 Don Cherry The Thing 5:51

07 Larry Young Visions 6:44

08 Wynton Marsalis Donna Lee 6:53

09 Sam Rivers Luminous Monolith 6:31

10 Grachan Moncur Iii Monk in Wonderland 7:51

CD09

01 Jacky Terrasson Un Poco Loco 5:38

02 Lee Konitz 'round Midnight 12:45

03 Patricia Barber Morpheus 4:35

04 David Axelrod Holy Thursday 5:31

05 Terence Blanchard Flow Part 1 5:30

06 John Scofield Do Like Eddie 8:09

07 Stacey Kent Never Let Me Go 4:40

08 Gonzalo Rubalcaba Silencio 3:42

09 Dianne Reeves Softly as in a Morning Sunris 4:54

10 T.S. Monk & Ron Carter Evidence 4:42

CD10

01 John Lovano Oh! 6:22

02 Lionel Loueke Feat Herbie Hancock Seven Teens 6:53

03 Martial Solal Body and Soul 7:57

04 Cassandra Wilson The Very Thought of You 4:44

05 Jason Moran Blue Blocks 4:33

06 Medeski, Martin & Wood Partido Alto 5:43

07 Marc Moulin What 5:59

08 Robert Glasper Maiden Voyage 8:43

09 Norah Jones The Nearness of You 3:04

10 Amos Lee Colors 2:40

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